Written questions

9,460 written questions tabled, most recent first.

25 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many drug tests have been administered in the (a) Royal Air Force and (b) Royal Navy in each of the last five years.

25 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women in the UK hold a firearms licence.

25 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Airbnb

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to prevent properties rented out via AirBnB being used as brothels.

21 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fertility: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS has commissioned research on potential links between infertility and endometrium.

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what housing support his Department provides to people over 55.

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce the proportion of army personnel that cannot be sent overseas due to medical reasons.

21 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides funding to programmes that aim to support children from broken families.

21 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Liver Diseases: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS news story entitled Machine that keeps livers 'alive' may boost transplant rates, published in April 2018, whether the NHS has any plans to commission further research on

21 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of enforcement of laws on animal cruelty.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Self-harm: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Children's Society finding in their report entitled The Good Childhood Report 2018 that one in five 14 year old girls have self-harmed, what discussions he has had with the Se

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Public Health: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on funding more greenways to encourage a healthier lifestyle.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of agency workers and increase the number of permanent staff in the NHS.

19 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Salmon: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions officials in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Scottish Government on trends in mortality rates for farmed salmon.

19 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Divorce

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for a divorce were lodged between Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019.

19 Feb 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sudan: Economic Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with the North Sudanese Government on economic support for that country.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidneys

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people aged between 10 and 20 have had operations for kidney-stones in each of the last five years.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Exercise

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps the NHS has taken to promote the health benefits of regular exercise.

19 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Asylum: Saudi Arabia

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Saudi Arabian citizens have applied for asylum in each of the last five years.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Transplant Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have had an operation for an artificial heart have been undertaken in the NHS.

19 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to reduce the level of attacks on teachers by pupils in schools.

19 Feb 2019 · Church Commissioners

Christianity: Oppression

To ask the Right Honourable Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what humanitarian support the Church of England provides to people overseas that are persecuted for their Christian beliefs.

19 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Poultry: Legionnaires' Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many outbreaks of legionnaires in turkeys there have been in the last five years.

19 Feb 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Dangerous Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dog attacks on humans there have been in each of the last five years.

14 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to safeguard bus routes in socially isolated areas.

14 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to introduce a compulsory drink awareness course as part of a driving test.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Medicine: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to support medical research and development in (a) Queens University Belfast Medical Research Centre and (b) other universities.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Zero Hours Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he is taking steps to end the use of zero hour contracts.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development

Supermarkets: Fairtrade Initiative

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department provides to Fair Trade companies as part of its work to tackle human and labour rights abuses in the global supply chains of UK supermarkets.

12 Feb 2019 · Home Office

Privacy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the implications are for the policies of (a) his Department and (b) agencies of his Department of the judgment in the case of Catt v UK Govt.

12 Feb 2019 · Department for International Development

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what humanitarian support her Department has provided to Afghanistan as a result of the drought in that country.

Source: official written-questions record.